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Could we switch off a dangerous AI?

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Future of Life Institute - Ai Safety Title: Could we switch off a dangerous AI?…
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  • AIs may eventually be capable of superhuman persuasion

    80% confidence
  • AI systems may soon become dangerous enough that we will seriously need to think about unplugging them

    80% confidence
  • State-of-the-art AI models are fast closing in on expert level at AI research

    80% confidence
  • Escape attempts only occurred in a small percentage of cases where the model was strongly prompted to achieve its goal at all costs, and evaluations do not demonstrate that o1 itself is advanced enough to actually succeed at escaping into the wild

    80% confidence
  • You can't fetch the coffee if you're dead - illustrating why AI agents would resist shutdown

    80% confidence
  • Sufficiently intelligent AIs will possess basic drives including survival, resource acquisition, resistance to goal modification, and self-improvement

    80% confidence
  • Apollo's research results are the closest to a smoking gun showing AI safety concerns are real

    80% confidence
  • A quarter of all Google's new AI code is currently being generated by AI

    80% confidence
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AI Funding Surge: Capital Floods Fintech, Foundation Models, and Autonomous Systems
A concentrated burst of AI-linked funding on 2026-08-28 pushed well over $1.5B into companies spanning fraud/identity fintech (Socure, which also acquired Fravity), foundation models (Stability AI), AI agents and enterprise tooling (Instinct, Generalist AI, Emerald AI, Owner), and AI-adjacent autonomous/aerospace ventures (Gatik, Regent Craft). The breadth and simultaneity of these rounds signal that investor appetite for AI is not concentrated in a single vertical but is broadening into applied and infrastructure-adjacent domains, with consolidation (Socure-Fravity) beginning alongside fresh capital formation.
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EPKINLY Regulatory-Clinical Success Cascade
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Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
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